[wplug] Email disappearing/not accessible via KMail

[Edward Bosco]

Bill -

KMail on the receive side is using POP. Xmit is smtp. The messages within mail 
are emails from Earthlink. Your scenario sound very likely. 

Mail might pickup emails from Earthlink after modem connect and prior to 
invoking KMail.

How might I suppress mail accessing the Internet/modem, and only funneling 
that traffic through KMail?

here's a typical header:
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On Wednesday 03 March 2004 09:07, Bill Moran wrote:
 Edward Bosco wrote:
> > All -
> >
> > I've an odd problem with emails coming off the Earthlink.net account not
> > showing up in KMail.
> >
> > I'm running SuSE 8.2, with Konqueror as browser and KMail as email
> > client.
> >
> > I got some messages from people, that sent me email that I'd never saw in
> > the KMail inbox. When I open a console window and invoke the unix program
> > 'mail', I see some messages in that inbox that I hadn't seen in KMail.
> >
> > I haven't seen anything via a google search that sheds light on this. I'm
> > not seeing a clear path to get those emails requeued toso I can access
> > them via KMail.
>
> Are you using POP3 with both of those clients?  If so, the UNIX mail is
> downloading the emails from the server and they no longer exist when Kmail
> checks for new mail.
>
> Otherwise, are these emails that are being sent to the local UNIX user
> account? Check the headers, these messages may never have gotten out onto
> the Internet at all.  Are they system status emails?  If so, most Posix
> systems email system status messages to the local root account by default. 
> You'll have to reconfigure your maintenance routines to email to your
> Internet account.
>
> Those are the two most likely causes of the problem.  If you want more
> detailed answers, you'll have to provide more details of your setup (i.e.
> POP3 vs. IMAP, example headers from problem emails, etc)